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US appeals court upholds preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of Texas immigration law SB4 pending litigation

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A three-judge panel of the Fifth District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a controversial Texas law, Senate Bill (SB) 4 , will remain on hold as litigation continues. SB4, the controversial Texas law that is the subject of this continued litigation, was originally signed into law in December 2023.

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Minnesota Supreme Court upholds felony disenfranchisement law

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The Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting convicted felons from voting while on probation or parole in a 3-1 ruling. The law at issue, Minn. The appellants, two convicted felons, argued that the law violates Article VII , Section 1, of the Minnesota Constitution.

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Law School Canons: You can’t always “have it your way!”

Patently O

He authors a series linking law school canonical cases with intellectual property counterparts. ISE is an Iowa LLC with its principal place of business in Coralville, Iowa (in the Northern District of Iowa). and litigating patents away from D.C. By Avery Welker. Trimble, Inc. Trimble Inc. , Trimble Inc. ,

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US book publishers sue Florida Department of Education over library restrictions

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Six major book publishers Friday sued the Florida Department of Education, challenging a 2023 state law used to restrict books in school libraries. The plaintiffs are suing on the basis that the state law is overbroad and violates the freedom of expression protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] 1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S.

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Arbitration clauses, prejudicial delays, and one justice’s contract-law “nightmare”

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This case began when Robyn Morgan filed in Iowa federal court a wage-and-hour complaint on behalf of herself and similarly situated employees against Sundance, Inc., Section 2 directs that arbitration contracts are enforceable in federal court, except “upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”

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What do you call it? For almost two-thirds of you, it’s the “specification”

Patently O

” (with the caveat that examiners and litigators are a smaller n). Litigator: 10%. Finally, here’s the “patent law” definition of “specification” from Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, Second Edition, published in 1957: Specification.